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Just compare median income with median rent over the span of time in various places of the world. Make a study like that, or find one that did this. That's useful information.
"In 2023, 1.1% of hourly paid workers in the USA earned the federal minimum wage or less."
Okay minimum wage+50¢, woopie. It’s someone’s first apartment. For rent. This is not median levels of income. This is first quartile at best. Median income shouldn’t even be renting.
But sure, they have data on quintiles, so let’s use upper limit of the first from 1985 (~10k) and 2022 (30k) is 3x so even at that, it should be $930. https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/household-income-quintiles
The data is on household incomes which is less ideal than individual income but whatever.
Ignoring if it’s the same apartment from the 80s to now that’s 40 years older, and I doubt it’s been kept up to date, so it should not be worth anywhere near as much, but you know, whatever.
Have to say it is very fun watching you dismantle their hand-wavy bullshit on their terms lol
That approach should be the standard, not talking bout minimum wages when it's clearly just a symbolic euro. Your country doesn't have a real minimum wage so you cannot use it in calculations.
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